Misogyny for Sale: TeePublic Normalises Violence Against Women


Misogyny for Sale: TeePublic Normalises Violence Against Women
The issue
**Content Warning**
TeePublic - an online apparel company owned by Melbourne-based parent company Articore headed by CEO Martin Hosking - sells and profits from products eroticising violence against women.
Across multiple t.shirt designs, women are depicted bound, gagged, naked, treated as animals, degraded, humiliated and subordinate. Women exist to be used then thrown out with the rubbish.
No woman is immune. Even nuns are shown with protruding naked breasts, strangled, exposing themselves and leashed with rosary beads.
These images fuel attitudes which drive violence against real women and real girls. Wearing female degradation on a t.shirt broadcasts its acceptability.
Maybe TeePublic/Articore missed the memo. We’re trying to end violence against women not encourage it. See more examples here.
The company has terms and conditions, but routinely allows them to be breached.
'Your use of the website will comply with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations; The content does not contain material that defames or vilifies any person, people, races, religion or religious group and is not obscene, pornographic, indecent, harassing, threatening, harmful, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory or otherwise objectionable...'
While we acknowledge the company has removed thousands of child sexual exploitation products we campaigned against, it is not acceptable to treat women this way.
We call on Articore, as the parent company, to act immediately. It must remove products promoting violence against women.
Please sign our petition and let Articore and TeePublic know that no company should profit from violence against women.

10,456
The issue
**Content Warning**
TeePublic - an online apparel company owned by Melbourne-based parent company Articore headed by CEO Martin Hosking - sells and profits from products eroticising violence against women.
Across multiple t.shirt designs, women are depicted bound, gagged, naked, treated as animals, degraded, humiliated and subordinate. Women exist to be used then thrown out with the rubbish.
No woman is immune. Even nuns are shown with protruding naked breasts, strangled, exposing themselves and leashed with rosary beads.
These images fuel attitudes which drive violence against real women and real girls. Wearing female degradation on a t.shirt broadcasts its acceptability.
Maybe TeePublic/Articore missed the memo. We’re trying to end violence against women not encourage it. See more examples here.
The company has terms and conditions, but routinely allows them to be breached.
'Your use of the website will comply with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations; The content does not contain material that defames or vilifies any person, people, races, religion or religious group and is not obscene, pornographic, indecent, harassing, threatening, harmful, invasive of privacy or publicity rights, abusive, inflammatory or otherwise objectionable...'
While we acknowledge the company has removed thousands of child sexual exploitation products we campaigned against, it is not acceptable to treat women this way.
We call on Articore, as the parent company, to act immediately. It must remove products promoting violence against women.
Please sign our petition and let Articore and TeePublic know that no company should profit from violence against women.

10,456
The Decision Makers
Supporter voices
Petition created on 19 August 2024